A Democrat takes on Chicago’s culture of corruption. Really.
This guy better watch his back. Via John Kass at the Chicago Tribune:
Political corruption is finally a real issue in this corrupt state, because it’s led Illinois to financial ruin and now almost every candidate running for something has an anti-corruption message.
Some promise transparency. Others vow to serve only one term. A few candidates — particularly the smooth, buttoned-down consummate political insiders — have declared themselves to be complete outsiders and expect voters to believe it.
There is one candidate who not only talks about corruption. He has actually done something about it, but he’s not getting much ink.
David Hoffman, running for the U.S. Senate in the Democratic primary, is the former federal prosecutor who investigated sleaze as the city’s inspector general, until he committed a series of cardinal sins as far as Mayor Richard Daley was concerned.
The sins? He did his job.
“The culture of corruption runs throughout Chicago’s history, one hand washing the other,” said Hoffman in an interview last week. “It’s not about serving the public. But it is all about maintaining and controlling power.”
“It’s not about serving the public. But it is all about maintaining and controlling power.”
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Is he really a Democrat? It is hard to believe that a democrat would actually be fighting corruption these days.
Likely either a DINO – ?SINO?;
or, if he is actually serious about combatting corruption, and considers himself a socialist…well, perhaps he then also believes in the Easter Bunny, unicorns, the tooth fairy, and moderate muslims.
Leave the Tooth Fairy out of this! We go way back!
Democrats getting SOOOOO corrupt even other democrats are getting fed up!
Ain’t that one of the signs of the coming Apocalypse?
Wow, that chill you feel is from Hell freezing over.
On January 12th, 2010 at 1:00 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
Leave the Tooth Fairy out of this! We go way back!
Good one!
Reminds me of Joseph Cotten’s line in “Citizen Kane”:
Charles Foster Kane: “You long-faced, overdressed anarchist.”
Jed Leland: “I am not overdressed.”
Ummm….
Where is commnet #5?
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Look out for ex Gov. Blago and his cronies–they are mixing up some Al Capone style CEMENT OVERSHOES for any reformers.
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Comment #5 must have gotten the cement overshoes.
I will not confirm or deny the existance of comment #5. This comment has no comment at this time.
Comment # 13 on the Crist thread also “went for a long walk off a short pier.”
I think they 86′d comment #5.
So did Botox Nancy and that Has no Nego dialect & is light skinned guy.
As David Hoffman is from the same city as Miss Hillary, President Obama, Jesse Jackson and all kinds of Daleys I’ll keep my distance. I guess you have to be a Democrat to do well in Chicago but then you had to be a Communist to do well in the USSR; it is not a defense.
Did the DNC get an EPA waiver for those cement overshoes dumped in the lake?
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Rod Blagojevich sings Elvis with Fabio
It is reef building!
Granite…I’m starting to think that we either have been infiltrated with trolls who are making disgusting comments, or our censors are getting tougher. I hope it is the troll option. I would hate to think our free expression is being stifled too much!
mmmm….. Seems like this is the Democrat MO in DC also.
And speaking of censorship…what happened to Zeroangel? Anyone know? Just curious. Did he give up on us?
AZCaveman: I would MUCH rather watch Martina McBride sing Blue Christmas with Elvis…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KK6Mo8NBY
Yet another example of the State Controlled, bought and paid for, media.
Remember that Bho voted against the anti-corruption legislation while a state senator. If Chicago corruption goes down, so will Bho.
Abstract Mind has been silent for a while, too.
Well, I won’t give up praying for them. Mistress Justice was given the boot some time back, but I still pray for her.
Michelle Malkin doesn’t have open registration, so it can’t really be a pack of wild trolls, can it?
Did LGM get kicked? I haven’t seen him in eons.
FIFY
Remember he/she/they had multiple blogging personalities?
i’ll believe this when i see him frog marching every employee in city hall out the doors into paddy wagons. EVERY POLITICIAN IN ILLINOIS CLAIMS TO BE A CORRUPTION FIGHTER, BUT THEY REALLY MEAN THEY ARE GOING TO FIGHT THE OTHER PARTIES CORRUPT CRONIES, NOT THEIRS.
If this is true (and I’m talking about a mighty big “if” here), then this guy will probably be at the bottom of the river by the end of the week.
There’s an ulterior motive afoot…just wait.
Succummed to koolaid poisoning and anal retentive syndrome (ARS).
It was sad.
We’re not praising the Lord and singing hymns. It’s his battlecry.
Much like AlGore’s breath down the back of my neck.
Which one?
Okay, I’m done. Good night.
Isn’t that the official moto of the Democratic Party?
I’ve been wondering the same thing. It’s not like our resident evangelical atheist to stay silent this long. Last I heard of him, he was trying to break the record for the longest thread. Either he went so far he couldn’t find his way back, or he finds conversing with himself much more interesting than talking to the rest of us.
This guy’s a donk? In Chicago, IL? Holy Moses! If you can spare any of your own security people MM, Mr. Hoffman will probably need them.